Roky Erickson and his dog in Austin by Scott Newton

Photographers Notes: Roky Erickson. early 1974 or late 1973. He was at a party in Clarksville, an old freed-slave community which has now been absorbed by Austin. But, at the time, a very old (80+) black man named Uncle Seymore, the son of a freed slave who had built the house Unk still lived in, loved the hippies who would come party and play at his house and they loved him back... This is one of my favorite Roky images, made when he was young and absolutely brilliant.